A Bad Day for Sunshine by Darynda Jones, 390 pagesSunshine Vicram has just been elected sheriff of Del Sol, New Mexico, though she's not entirely sure how. All she knows is that her parents managed to get her on the ballot, she somehow won, and now she's in charge of the small crew of deputies in her kooky hometown. Of course, her tenure starts out rough, with some bad-omen muffins turning up, accusations of a stolen prize rooster, a mysteriously absent deputy, and the disappearance of a high school girl just before her 15th birthday, the last of which was prophesied by the missing teen when she was just 6. Throw in Sunshine's own teenage daughter and Sun's long-simmering crush on the town bad boy, and well, the new sheriff has more than enough on her plate.
The first in a planned series, this introduces some excellent characters and a humorous tone reminiscent of Janet Evanovich. I loved the setting (seriously wanting to visit New Mexico now!) and the various intertwined mysteries, though I had a bit of a bone to pick with the author's depiction of people on the autism spectrum. I may try the next book in the series when it comes out, as I really enjoyed the characters and am genuinely curious where this story will go next, though I really hope Jones gets herself educated about autism before then.
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